LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Gary Hogeboom had a journeyman's career in the National Football League, playing 10 seasons with three teams and finishing with more career interceptions (60) than touchdown passes (49). But the former Dallas Cowboy will have a chance to become a champion on a different playing field come September.

Hogeboom is one of the 16 castaways on "Survivor: Guatemala -- The Maya Empire." The 11th edition of CBS' flagship reality series begins Thursday, Sept. 15. As always, Jeff Probst returns as host.

After several seasons where the game started with 18 or even 20 players, "Survivor" mastermind Mark Burnett has cut back the number of players to 16, as it was for the first several installments. They range in age from 21 to 63 -- Hogeboom, who turns 47 later this month, is the second-oldest -- and hail from, among other places, two different Manhattans (New York City and Kansas); Dallas; Chadron, Ohio; and Naples, Fla.